Variations on Public Space
for ensemble, electronics and listening-posts in public space
12 min
2018

Variations on Public Space is a site-specific work, reflecting on the possibilities of sonic practices to engage with public space and the kinds of practices that are already being inscribed into it. Variations on Public Space has been developed for the festival Acht Brücken / Musik für Köln.

In the piece, the ensemble describes and imitates field recordings, recorded in front of all the festival's performance venues. During the festival, all the recording positions are marked by ear-stickers, in order to allow the audience to compare their listening experience with the one they had in the concert and furthermore with the ways, the ensemble interpreted and described those spaces. How does our way of listening differ from someone else's? Can this difference be used as a starting point towards a broader discussion on the use of public space and the practices inscribed into it?

Illustration by Martha Schultz

Ensemble Electronic ID
Sarah Heemann – Flute
Matthias Schuller – Trombone
Arturo Portugal – Percussion
Felix Knoblauch – Piano
Pauline Buss – Viola
Rebekka Stephan – Violoncello
Maximiliano Estudies – Electronics
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